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March 9, birthdays for Clint Dempsey, Brittany Snow, Matt Barnes

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March 9, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
U.S. soccer star Clint Dempsey celebrates his birthday today. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
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Greetings, Brooklyn.  Today is the 67th day of the year.

Notable people born on this day include Oscar Isaac and Benito Santiago, among others.

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ON THIS DAY IN 1953, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Four Nabbed in Hijacking of TV Tubes.”

The article focused on four robbers who were caught with $175,000 worth of stolen TV tubes.

“Blumberg returned from the warehouse office, where he had his bill of lading checked, to find guns pointing in his face. He was forced into a panel truck, blindfolded and then driven around for four hours while confederates of the kidnapers made off with the tube cargo,” the Eagle reported.

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include basketball star MATT BARNES, who was born in 1980; Oscar Award-winning actress JULIETTE BINOCHE, who was born in 1964; U.S. soccer star CLINT DEMPSEY, who was born in 1983; actress LINDA FIORENTINO, who was born in 1960; singer and musician MICKEY GILLEY, who was born in 1936; actor OSCAR ISAAC, who was born in 1979; photographer and journalist DAVID HUME KENNERLY, who was born in 1947; actor EMMANUEL LEWIS, who was born in Brooklyn in 1971; former baseball player TERRY MULHOLLAND, who was born in 1963; musician and songwriter JEFFREY OSBORNE, who was born in 1948; former baseball player BENITO SANTIAGO, who was born in 1965; actress BRITTANY SNOW, who was born in 1986; actress TRISH VAN DEVERE, who was born in 1943; and actress JOYCE VAN PATTEN, who was born in 1934.

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BARBIE DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1959. The popular girls’ doll debuted at the American Toy Fair in New York City. More than 800 million dolls have been sold.

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VITA SACKVILLE-WEST WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1892. The award-winning author, lecturer, broadcaster and landscape architect is now arguably best known for her love affair with Virginia Woolf and for her gardens at Sissinghurst. Her two greatest passions, writing and gardening, are married in “The Land,” (1926) a poetic saga of the land and the beauties of the changing seasons.” Recipient of the Hawthornden Prize (1927) and the Heinemann Prize (1946), Sackville-West was made a Companion of Honour in 1948 for her work. She died in 1962 in England.

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YURI ALEXSEYEVICH GAGARIN WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1934. The Russian astronaut was the first person to travel into space. The 27-year-old Soviet Air Force major made his flight in 1961, lasting 108 minutes and orbiting Earth in a rocket-propelled, five-ton space capsule 187 miles above Earth’s surface. Gagarin was killed in an airplane crash near Moscow in 1968. After his death, the town in which he was born was renamed Gagarin and the Gagarin Museum was established in the frame house where he spent his childhood.

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AMERIGO VESPUCCI WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1454. The Italian navigator, merchant and explorer is the namesake of the Americas. He participated in at least two expeditions between 1499 and 1502, which took him to the coast of South America, where he discovered the Amazon and Plata rivers. Vespucci’s expeditions were of great importance because he believed that he had discovered a new continent, not just a new route to the Orient. Neither Vespucci nor his exploits achieved the fame of Columbus, but the New World was to be named for Vespucci by an obscure German geographer and mapmaker, Martin Waldseemuller. Ironically, in his work as an outfitter of ships, Vespucci had been personally acquainted with Christopher Columbus. Vespucci died in Spain in 1512.

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THE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY (BHS) WILL HOST “ARE WE THERE Yet, Sisters? Will We Ever Be?: A Conversation with Julie Scelfo and Debora Spar” tonight at 6:30 p.m. Are gender disparities still ruling our female lives? Hear from two women who have, literally, written the book. Spar is Barnard College’s seventh president and the author of “Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection.” Scelfo’s just published work, “The Women Who Made New York,” chronicles dozens of untold stories of women who made New York City the cultural epicenter of the world. They will discuss glass ceilings, sexism and getting older and wiser in this program presented as part of Women’s History Month. For more information, visit brooklynhistory.com.

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Special thanks to “Chase’s Calendar of Events” and Brooklyn Public Library.

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“What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.”  — author Vita Sackville-West, who was born on this day in 1892

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